Week 11

This weeks assignments were probably my favorite in this class.  I found it very interesting to write my own headlines.  I caught myself spending a lot of time on this assignment because I just kept reading other headlines and when I found a good headline, I would read the story.  It is crazy how important a headline is to a story.  I think it is the most important part.  It determines if the reader is going to read your story or skip over it.  I found myself liking the headlines with the strong verbs in them.  These stood out to me and I ended up reading the stories.  I found it hard to not write a headline as a question.  I felt like a question would stand out to readers and would draw their interest.  I did learn to make them short and sweet.  I did make some mistakes of making them too long but I learned my lesson.  Even though it has to be short, you can still get a point across and add detail to it.

The mistake I found this week was in my own paper.  I was writing a paper for another class and I made the mistake of have two run on sentences.  This concept is hard for me and it is still something I am working on.  I feel like it makes it sound choppy if I cut the sentence in half but then when I read it out loud I understood what the professor meant.  It sounded better when I made it into two sentences.